Trichocereus in flower today

Today I had a couple of Trichos in flower at the same time I crossed them each way and now fingers crossed After the last shot was taken the second flower opened up on the bigger one and I pollinated it too.


Yesterday 13/12/2010












Today 14/12/2010

Beauty! Any special techniques to get them to flower? My largest Tricho is nearing the 2m mark and hasn't flowered yet... i wish it would.

Beautiful! My globular echinopsis are in full bloom at the moment, but I haven't seen a single bud on any of my trichs yet this season...

blowng, no real tricks the only thing I do personally is not move the plant once it becomes dormant in the colder months leading up to the flowering season. I try and keep the plant in a constant position as I believe the arch of the sun (it gets higher in summer) is what helps trigger flowering.


Lachy, I had a nice Tricho Echinopsis hybrid that I missed whilst I was overseas. I was really keen to find out the flower colour. Fingers crossed for your trichos.


P.s I have heard many people say tichos flower more readily in the ground and I too believe this is true, both the plants above are in pots

If all goes to plan I will have a heap of seed, if anyone wants some post here with your interest and most should receive

yees please!

very nice,would have to put my name down for some seed too,

hey

what kind of trichoecerei are they?

I'd love some seed if you can send away to greece

mutant,
The first plant pictured is Pachanoi "Omar" and the second is a is a Peruvianus, it does not have a name or person I can trace it back to but It was sourced from western NSW.

The fruits are developing nicely and should be ready in a couple of weeks

Beautiful flowers!

sweet as
another one keen for seeds now

The fruits are pretty much ready,


Blowng, Cactuscactus1, Mutant, Scarab will all receive some seeds
Please send me a PM with your ADDRESS.

Tripsis I will include you also if you wish ? You didn't say if you wanted any.

HN

Sure, that would be great. I love finding out what the progeny of hybrids look like.

Why not, if you get enough seeds I would like some to please. Let me know if you want me to cover postage costs.

FRUITS Anyone who sent me their address was sent some seeds today...... Enjoy.

Hey HN, do you think your peruvianus could actually be a pachanoi variant, such as the following?

From Ecuador:





From Peru:





The colour of the hair/wool around the base of the flower is a bit pale for pachanoi though, but it could easily be a hybrid, like the PC pachanoi.

Yes it could easily be a Pachanoi, the remainder of the plant is quite heavily spined and reminds me more of Cuzco than a pach but there is such variation in Trichos I have no idea really.

That picture second from the bottom on the right looks exactly like a plant I have, nice looking plant.

Interesting, I really like the idea that there are several different pachanoi variants here in Aus, rather than just the PC clone. Where did you get it from?

It was sourced from an old bloke from western NSW I'm not sure if he is around anymore, not Lester if anyone is thinkng him another old fella

Thought I might necro this thread and ask, Whats the results? Was the hybridization a success?

Yes it certainly was, I've got a heap of seed, if you want some PM me.
HN

Pm'd

Hey I just noticed something quite interesting when I stumbled across this thread again, thanks sneaky.

In the first picture of this thread look in the background there is a Tricho Peruvianus and the date is 13/12/2010, here is that picture to make it easier.



Here is the same plant as of 24/09/2013, the big one in the middle That's some pretty good growth.

wow that's some intense growth. At least tripled in size since then. Just curious, whats the thickest log you have ever seen? I remember reading in trouts notes a very interesting snippet of information regarding some ancient, enormous (possibly naturally hybridized) tricho's.

Here's a photo I found on a rather interesting Facebook page, that, due to its topic of conversation I can't mention here.

One day it might reach this size.